Cities of the future + Architecture | The Guardianhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/series/cities-of-the-future+architecture
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London 2030: our expert predictionshttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/24/london-2030-future-predictions
What will Britain's capital city look like in 20 years' time. What technological, social or environmental changes will most shape our future? Read on… and join the debate <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/24/london-2030-future-predictions">Continue reading...</a>ArchitectureLondonCitiesSun, 24 Jan 2010 00:05:16 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/24/london-2030-future-predictionsAndrew Boyers/Action ImagesArchitect Zaha Hadid with her design for the Aquatics Centre under construction for the London 2012 Olympics. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action ImagesAndrew Boyers/Action ImagesArchitect Zaha Hadid with her design for the Aquatics Centre under construction for the London 2012 Olympics. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action ImagesGuardian Staff2010-01-24T00:05:16ZLondon in 2010 – as predicted in 1990 | Featurehttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/24/2010-back-to-the-future
Twenty years ago we published a magazine that looked ahead to London in 2010. Our team of experts foresaw futuristic monorails, machines to control the rain, and a city riven by class wars. Instead we have the London Eye, the Gherkin and a population in thrall to the iPod and the mobile phone. We went back to those experts to ask: how did we get here?<p>In 1990, the century was getting ready to end and London too – its defeated human population draining away, its traffic choked, its decrepit buildings augmented by cardboard cities lodging indigent teenagers – seemed to be on its last legs. Looking 20 years ahead, the<em> Observer </em>imagined a dystopia like that in Fritz Lang's <em>Metropolis</em> and Ridley Scott's <em>Blade &shy;Runner</em>: either a dualistic city with the rich en&shy;skied in inaccessible towers and the poor penned underground, or a third world swamp teeming with people anxious for expatriation to another planet. Despair even reduced us to agreeing with Prince Charles, who had been whingeing about the city's &quot;inhumanity&quot;.</p><p>Gurus, when asked to prognosticate about 2010, warned of trouble. The Labour MP Tony Banks expected that a widening gulf between ostentatious wealth and dank poverty would provoke class war. The urban planner Peter Hall worried about a property market driven by reckless greed and noted the existence of an underclass excluded from the economy and hardly belonging to society. The journalist Peter Kellner recommended that London's population should be decreased by two million – did he expect a convenient plague, or a particularly spectacular al-Qaida atrocity? – and set an example by abruptly moving to Cambridge.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/24/2010-back-to-the-future">Continue reading...</a>ArchitectureArt and designSocietySocial trendsUK newsZaha HadidOlympic Games 2012CitiesOlympicsSun, 24 Jan 2010 00:05:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/24/2010-back-to-the-futureDaniel Berehulak/Getty ImagesPassengers on the London Eye look our across the London skyline. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty ImagesPhilippa Lewis/&#169; Edifice/CorbisNorman Foster's Swiss Re building, London.&#13; Photograph: Philippa Lewis/&#169; Edifice/CorbisPeter Conrad2010-01-24T00:05:00Z